Example sentences of "may well have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who has travelled the country lanes around Holt , near Wrexham , may well have seen a tractor working that they could n't quite identify . |
| 2 | You know the government may well have given a priority for special needs |
| 3 | In both cases , their separate experience may well have created a special atmosphere , although my informants all stressed that they got on perfectly well with the men at work . |
| 4 | King Alfred 's successes may well have owed a great deal to his predecessors , but in the construction of his network of defensive fortresses we see an ability to command similar to Offa 's , and perpetuated by his son Edward the Elder and grandson Æthelstan , who conquered all England for the West Saxon dynasty . |
| 5 | The individual teacher may well have made a significant development in his or her own understanding , but that is not a sufficient condition of securing publication ( thesis three ) . |
| 6 | The reduction in the nature conservation interest will probably have been slight and reintroduction of light grazing may well have prevented a decline in floristic diversity in some upland , species-rich grasslands traditionally subject to such grazing . |
| 7 | He kept in check the political and economic expectations of his people , but in so doing he may well have placed a burden on his young and untried successor , the fourteen-year-old Makhostive , his son by Ntombi Latfwala , who was queen regent of Swaziland from 1983 until the prince was crowned in April 1986 . |
| 8 | After the threats of the early '80s we may well have relaxed a bit . |
| 9 | The comparative stability of the oligopolistic structure in the United States may well have bred a complacency which Japanese and German capitalists , faced with rebuilding their position on world markets almost from scratch , could never afford . |
| 10 | This close association of Church and Party may well have had a cost to the Church in limiting recruitment to people who are not committed supporters of the Official Unionist Party but , given that the DUP support is twenty times the size of the Free Church and that there is a large uncommitted population , this is probably not something which explains why more people do not join the Free Church . |
| 11 | If you had your baby at BMH , you may well have had a leaflet left on your bed by Birmingham West branch . |
| 12 | The increase in this woodland may well have had a beneficial effect on the Woodcock and has provided the increasing breeding Redpoll population with an abundance of habitat . |
| 13 | The conductor William Llewellyn may well have had a few sleepless nights but must have been proud of his singers . |
| 14 | Like Julian , perhaps , Teresa also had an illness that may well have had a psychological aspect and which brought her to the brink of death ; her autobiography and spiritual writings show how she brought herself a physical and spiritual healing . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , he may well have had a guilty conscience : he certainly tried to use his influence to poison Mozart 's career , out of sheer jealousy at the younger man 's superior talents ; but he does not seem to have been directly involved in his death . |
| 16 | This may well have had a bearing on Washington 's decision later in the year to send out the hostage intelligence team , headed by Major Charles McKee of the DIA , who died in the bombing of Flight 103 . |
| 17 | Indeed , the loss of the Asmar network 's continuing surveillance of NARCOG 's operations in Lebanon may well have had a bearing on the bombing itself . |
| 18 | The flock are unlikely to have been as completely innocent as the latter suggests , and their guilt may well have had a secular aspect , for it might be doubted whether Cnut would have become involved with spiritual shortcomings . |
| 19 | Erm well it 'll be useful I think for you , I me , assuming that peoples ' timetables may well have changed a bit since er , the beginning of last term it 'll be useful if you |
| 20 | The Smiths may well have attained a state of parody but , amazingly , it did n't matter . |
| 21 | It looks as though Robert may well have assembled a fleet at Fécamp , seemingly in 1033 , and that it visited Mont St Michel , where Edward made a gift to the monks . |
| 22 | What I have presented as analysis of current movements may well have acquired a historical flavour by the time these words are read . |
| 23 | Walt Disney may well have appreciated a tool like this for taking the drudgery out of the cartoon business but it has more serious applications in logo design and very effective business graphics ; one of the stock Adobe illustrations is a plot of the stock market showing a bull turning into a bear ! |
| 24 | But for those who could receive a smattering of instruction at home , or who had spent a short while at day schools in their infancy , they may well have nourished a plant that might otherwise have ceased to grow , or even withered . |
| 25 | Fergie may well have bought a cut diamond at cut price but how he fits in remains a poser . |
| 26 | To Henry it may well have seemed a sensible way of killing two birds with one stone — chastising rebels and at the same time providing his warlike second son with useful experience . |